Wednesday, April 11, 1962

Govmt Should Not Be Involved

The United States government should not allow material. The United States should use its influence Itself to be drawn into any negotiations with Castro to have the United Nations and other international pertaining to the ransoming of some 1,100 prisoners organfzations to condemn such a practice by any from the ill-fated invasion attempt in Cuba a year nation. '

ago.

*T. . ... . V ^ I. . There are literally hundreds of thousands of

I Cuban prisons are political prisoners in communist countries through-

tilled with some 60.000 inmates who have been in out the world. For the free world nations to seek carcerated by the Castro regime since coming to privatelflor through their governments to purchase power. If the Cuban dictator, finds that he can sell the freedom of these people with dollars would be the freedom of some of his prisoners for hard dollars utterly impossible. And vet. if Castro is successful or their equivalent, it may be expected that the with his current undertaking, international trade

iVe Have NOT Been Following His Lead!

freedom of other prisoners will also be offered for sale.

If Castro is successful with this scheme for trading in human lives on a dollars and cents basis,

in human lives' could become big business.

We seriously question w'hether the good that may be gained by purchasing the freedom of prisoners Castro has offered to sell would not be offset

f^ r^he Tng VunTy encou^

vewions of capitalizing on the idea. The primary ttke political prisoners just for the purpole of difference will be only m the identity of the victims j * c

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w'ho are held for ransom and the victims who pay

the ransom. fii i

Although the government, for humanitarian TrClllStilClIltiriCf reasons, has placed no barrier in the way of the va* ax ^

exchange of money for prisoners being handled on iff v

a private basis, there is danger even on this basis X Q XODOLCCO

that the position of the government may be misunderstood by other nations. President Kennedy When tiny tobacco plants are moved from their should not hesitate to condemn the action of Castro protected beds to the open fields each vear, it marks in seeking to set up a trade of lives for money or the real beginning of the growing season in this

tobacco region.

The first transplantings in Pitt County this week point to the increasing tempo of farming activity which will continue until it reaches its peak during the harvest and selling season fn late summer and early fall. The long days of labor aqd the countless hours of work which go into pHlducing another tobacco crop in this season will be carried on with an eye to the auction sales in the fall.

As in past years, the beginning of the busy

season on the farms of 'this area will open new jobs for farm labor and this in turn will be reflected in a gradual increase in weekly income for many familiies.

In spite of its progress in diversification, Pitt is still primarily dependent upon its agriculture for the level of its economy. At the outset of a new growing season, we hol'd hope that this year will be as successful for farmers as the past two years has been.

Governor Is Not Absolute Boss

By hYSS MSBET DICTATOR A good deal of crltlciam and complaint has been heard In recent years about the degree of power accorded to the Governors office In North Carolina. In most Instances the chief executive has not sought these extraordinary powers. and in some cases it seems Quite evident he would like to be-relieved of the attendant re-eponsibility. Many people have thought Governor Sanfords interposition of hia prestige In the Madison county school row was out of place, that perhaps he has gone too far in putting the executive department behind the prosecution of the highway signs cases after they had been turned over to the courts.

But * there are extenuating circumstances in many of the Instances of executive participation. People are coming more and more to think of the Governor as a sort of dictator who can do anything he wants to do with any function of state government. Witness the Highlands people appealing to the Governor to get them a doctor. Latest and one of the most striking incidents was the picketing of the Mansion by a bunch of Angler high school students in protest against the failure of the local school board to re-hire the principal. The Ocvemor told the students he had nothing to do with that matter. but the fact they evidently thought he did have authority illustrates the extent to which some citizens believe that the Governor is the absolute boss of everything connected with State Government. Repeated expressions of that concept tends to convince the executive that it is true.

vacant store rooms on front streets were filled uith industrial exhibits. The Post makes the point that these displays added much to the attractiveness of the city, and urges that they be allowed to remain. It is further suggested that manufacturers and distributors might rotate exhibits to avoid appearance of sameness. Besides brightening up the store fronts and improving the streets, these exhibits would serve to keep local people reminded of the variety of products made in Salisbury?The idea would seem to be very good for Salisbury and for any other io^i\ or city with vacant buildings on the main streets.

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.^y HENRY HOWARD

Sooth-Sayers On Thin Ice

Overshadowec.

JOBSThe CfeD department and several othei* State agencies have received dozens of applications for jobs from college students wanting to work in the Seattle Worlds Fair. The State of North Carolina does not have an exhibit at the fair, and therefore no jobs to hand out.

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FILINO TIME 'The books for listing candidates for legislative. county and local offices to be voted upon In the May 28 primary will close at noon Friday. By that time all notices of candidacy must be in the hands of the county boards of

GOOD THINOW'hat at one time seemed to be a real problems and cause for severe headache for the people handling the Travel Conference in Charlotte last Friday turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The conference had been set for the Queen Charlotte Hotel, and videly advertised. It was sponsored by the U. S. Travel Service for nine southeastern states, with Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges. USTS Director Voit Gilmore and other top rank officials on the program.

Thursday night a group of students from Johnson C. Smith University begin picketing the hotel, carrying placards declaring that this hotel discriminates against Negro American citizens. This was a federal meeting and Director Gilmore said ' it could not be held in segregated quarters. So between midnight and three o'clock Friday

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Ifs like the sun in your eyes.

The flashy things nuclear test ban talks, disarmament talks. Berlin talks blot out much of the meat-nd-potato business here at home.

That business is President Kennedys programs.

He .has dropped a mob of them in Congre^ basket. After three months of 1962. its a fair time to ask how he is doing with them. Its imply answered: He is setting no records and, at the rate hes going, he wont be.

The list of his proposals passed by Congress is impressively small. Only two Items Vhich could remotely be called major programs have won approval of both houses and been signed into law.

rocky time of it. The House, but not yet the Senate, approved a boost in postal rates.

The Senate also approved a proposed constitutional amendment to wipe out the poll tax as a requirement for voting. Five Southern states still have it. ;

This wont get off the ground unless the House also approves. In the Senate the Southern Democrats filibustered a few days and then let the vote be taken. The filibuster was more a gesture for the benefit of the folks back home than a practical effort to stop passage;

The House, but not yet the Senate, passed a ta.x-revision measure. House and Senate both approved federal aid for college classroom construction, but they did it differently. This

PkOGNOSTICATORS. while they generally like to prance alrishly. are usually obliged to tread on pretty thin ice as they go around sooth-saylnp.

'lilis is especially true of the type prophet who ventures a near-future prediction, its hard to imagine a feeling of comfort while sitting tight, awaiting with extreme misgivings the opportunity to say; I told you so.

Those four words, it seems, would be small reward for the uneasiness that invariably accompanies short-term prophets on their deliberate trip>s

to the extreme s of brittle limbs. Somebody has probably said a wise prophet is one whose prophesy at least outlives him.

Sound advice, then, to a determined prognostlcator who could not be persuaded to change his ways would most likely to be this; Look a couple hundred years ahead.

But on the opposite side: regular people (who are just too busy living to go around soothsaying) show at best only slight Interest In predictions that will outlive them. Why should they be interested

Public

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III one Conere.ss raised the

national debt limit to $300 billion. highest since the war although* it was only a $2 billion increase'. The , other permits training of up to a million' unemployed workers for new skills.

The rest of his programs are

on a compromise.

All the other major programs are still bogged down in com-rhlttees. They Include emergency power for the President to cut taxes and launch antireces-sion public works programs:

Jfhat doesn't m^an. . morning-iiiiigials were roused conpnittees

the notice must be postmarked out of bed in Washington and '^ve been passed by only one surance; a new' farm ^ogram;

before noon Friday, but that it must actually be in possession of the elections board by that time. Some surprise last minute filings for the Legislature may be expe/ited. There are a number of counties in which groups of citizens are stiU trying to get stronger candidates than have filed to get in the running.

Charlotte and arrangements house of Congress and will die made to move the meeting, in- exhaustion from waiting un-

OOOD USEThe Salisbury Pct notes that during the All-America City celebration last week and the national sports writers gatherings many of the

eluding the luncheon, to the David Ovens city auditorium. There was a bit of confusion in getting the visitors loaded on buses for the revised plan, but no serious hitches. And by having the meeting at the auditorium, adjacent to the coliseum and merchandise mart, out of state folks were enabled to see these advantages, as well as a good part of the Charlotte business community which they would not have seen had they not left the hotel.

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less the other House also approves.

Two of his major appeals got a dismal reception, "rhe House killed his plan for a new partment of urban affairs and housing. His plan of federal aid for public schools looks as dead as it did last year.

It is understood he will make an all-out pitch to get approval for his program of medical care for the aged, but his efforts on this one so far have not been rocking the walls of the Capitol.

On everything else he is using the same tactics as 1 a s t year. Using these tactics, strictly professional and unsensation-al, the President Works directly on he members of Congress, or through his aides, while avoiding ill-will, harsh words, or hppeals to the public to put pressure on Congress?

The Presidents personal popularity. as reflected in the public opinion polls, is astonishingly high. So. even If much of his over-all program gets massacred, hell prgbably remain highly liked.

Last week, after a lot of bickering among Republicans, Kennedy got the Senate to approve his request for authority to buy up to $100 million in U. N. bonds.

Now the House has to act and that may mean another

new civil rights legislation; ^ntLnuation of foreign aid pio-gram: drastic revision of the foreign trade program.

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Wlien government owns almost everything, bosses everything, and makes all the decisions, what do.the mas.ses of plain people get?

Answer: The short end of an everlasting stick.Industrial News Review.

It Is inconceivable that the Hou.-=e when it pas.sed the postal bill intended to tamper with one of the vital functions of a free societydiscussion, ex-idea; formattrn o opinion through intelligent iise of the printed word. Since the House acted. Congress has been put on notice of the probable coasequences of the bill in Its present form. The Senate .now bears the responsibility for revising the proposed rates so as to make certain the nation does not pay an impossible price in damage to cultural institutions for tne' comparatively small amount of-revenue involved.Chicago Sun-Times.

TO THE EDITOR;

I have read Mrs. Youngs let-, ter to the editor, and I have read the P. T. A. Committees letter to the editor, and I have a joke to tell.

At his wifes insistence, a man visited a psychiatrist. In the course of the interview, the psychiatrist drew a circle on a blank piece of paper and showed it to the man. What does that remind you of? asked the psychiatrist. Sex. said the man. On another sheet of paper the psychiatrist drew a straight vertical line. What does that remind you of? Sex, said the man. In succession, the psychiatrist drew checks, squares, rhomboids anything that popped into his mindasking the marl each time to tell him what each drawing re-mindcd him of, Sex. ,^d the mam cc^' lime. Finally the psychiatrist pushed back his chair, looked haid at the man and said. Man. youre all fouled up. Everything reminds you of sex. Not me. Doc, said the man. Youre the one that drew all them dirty pictures.

An old joke, maybe, but one that Is apiopos of the controversy between the P. T. A. committee and the newsstand operators.

One Sunday morning I was standing at the checkout counter of a local newsstand. Ahead of me was a man with a book in his hand. Thats a dirty book. said the new'sstand proprietor. Thats the dirtiest book I've ever read. The man bought the book anyway. I saw tlie title. I know the book. The author has been acclaimed by highly moral men as one of the greatest writers of the century. Is his book a dirty book? The proprietor thought so. Should he therefore deny the

raphy. One tribes rlng-around-a-rosy is anothers obscene dance. If your newspaper were to announce that a modem Lady Godiva would ride on a snow whlte horse from the railroad to the Court House this coming Saturday morning, what would happen? Shed never get on the horse. Shed be jailed for obscenity. No matter how gentle her manner, how innocent her thought, how pure her action. But who Would be standing on Five Points, waiting for her to ride by? You would. I w-ould. And so would a lot of members of the P. T. A., both men and women. For aesthetic reasons,' to be sure. After all, what could, be more artistically pleasurable than the sighf' of this beautiful golden-haired creature riding bare and bare hackMEUckiii^i AiTUua bn a sunny Saturday morning? But if the lady were actually permitted to ride on down the avenue, would there not be snickerings all along the way? And dirty jokes, too? And where would the obscenity, if any. lie? On the back of the horse or along the sidewalks?

I am very much in favor of the P. T. A. I admire the men and women who devote their time to it. But how many of them are literary critics? And If all of them were literary critics, how many could draw a thin firm line between what is and what is not obscene? Is the ninth chapter of Genesis obscene? Is Lady Chatterly's Lover obscene? Lolita? Chaucers Millers Tale? Is La Dolce Vita an obscene rliovie? I heard that it was banned in Boston. Lots of things are banned in Boston. You'd think that Boston woyld be pure as snow. But over the years one of Bostons chief claims to

in Whether it will snow July 4, 2162?

So, to put It bluntly: the present-day prognostlcator is in a pinch. To succeed, he must engage In measuring the short-term future. To establish and maintain his reputation, he must tackle the toughest form of soothsaying the kind that can be tested.

Now that a solid case has been built for the man who advises against prognosticating, Ill proceed With my own soothsaying . . . And in politics, too.

I predict that filing as candidates for nomination in the May 26 Democratic Primary in Pitt County W'ill be completed by midnight 'Thursday. This Will be true even though the filing deadline falls at noon Friday.

Now. Since Ive soothsayed, there must be a reason for the prognosis, no matter how unreasonable the assertion may be. Thats a normal subjugation for prophets.

Well. Friday is more than just plain Friday, Its Friday, the 13 th.

CARE TO go on your own soothsaying expedition? Prognosticate a little over this:

In noting the other day a report that the States plane, Kilty Hawk, was busy with 28 flights totaling 13,000 miles during the first quarter of 1962, it was, interesting to note Greenville figured into four of the^e trips involving, fff^ieast l.so ifilr?,

The log book included these entries:

Jan. 8Bill Ouinrie of me State Conservation and Development Department and four (industrial) prospects from Philadelphia to Greenville.

Jan. 9Bill Guthrie and the vsame prospects from Greenville to Washington.

Jan. 30Bill Guthrie and Russ Hanson (C&D) and Les Branson of Carolina Power & Light Co. With two prospects from Kinston to Greenville and from Greenville to Charlotte.

Feb. 13 C&D representatives and two prospects from Raleigh to Greenville to New-ark, N.J.

OBSCENE literature, while an ambiguous term to some,, has become a popular description around town lately.

With all the interest either -his-^ielsw? - fame- tor InfamyJ- has been its Prq pr_. perhaps How does he know? politically cori-upt government.

I agree wholeheartedly with Morality, like charity, should

begin at home. One of the members of the P. T. A. Committee is a rental agent, I have seen his name on a For Rent

(Continued on page five)

the P. T. A. Committee that obscenity and pornography should be eradicated. But what is obscenity? One generations art is another generations pomog-

worthwhile to note a recent comment by a local professor who views the entire issue with utter indifference:

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

What I cannot ever make out Is what has become of the American girl. Ask a businessman and he says that short of office help and whi gets cannot spell or make pi graphs or look up something. Ask a hospital administrator and he complains that if he does not get some more nurses the place will fall apart.

A hospital runs on nurses. But If one is in a hospital only a few days, he hears about the nurse shortage and how they have to use nurses aides and how some of them cannot tell a thermometer from a barometer, and how they have to import nurses from Ireland. Where are the American girls?

Nursing Is tough, physical work. In addition, a nurse must be patient, sweet-tempered, a Irst rate psychologist because he deals with sick, tired and frightened people. The w'orst patients are the convalescents; they want everything.

Doctors put some patients, particularly those who have cultivated excellent tastes in food and drink and have done themselves in thereby, on rigid, unpleasant diets, like those which are salt free, fat free, sugar free and the food Is like ? stuff fed on a soup Une for refugees. Then the doctor leaves and a dietician comes along to work out a menu. I am convinced that no dietician knows anything about food and a doc- tor even less, because what I am generally permitted by these conspirators to eat would not keep a crow alive. But tnith to tell, since I lost about 100 pounds, I am stronger, carry a heavier work load, and have a pleasanter disposition then when I smoked 20 cigars a day and ate delicacies from the four comers of the Earth.

A nurse has to deal with a fellow who finds caviar a fairly good starter but who is now given fat-free cottage chees# covered with fruit, like they used to serve In the tea shoppes.

She must be strong enough to lift a heavy bruiser and gentle enough to carry a new-bom baby. For this she must study and get a small salaryless than she could make asj a school-teacher or a sbeROg-rapher. She must be professionally capable even when the convalescent makes improper advances.

Why Would anyone be nurse? The answer is in the shortage of nurses. Of course, the armed forces take their share, just as they do of skilled people in every walk of live. But hospitals are short, and without nurses, doctors are helpless. Do we have to import all our skilled personnel from abroad? This is a very serious question which needs to be answered quickly in ome constructive manner, because the subsitutlon of pactical nurses and nurses aids for trained, registered nurses is not a prs^ tical or an honest solution.

Another falling of the medical profession Is serious and that is the shortage of internes and residents for clinical medicine; that Is. the kind of know-Jedge .lfeat an 4djfc.hloagd^en-eral practitioner used to nave. Nowadays everjbody Wants to be a specialist and While specialists are of limited value, the entire medical profession will collapse unless there are enough general practitioners to take care of the population. Industry takes its share of such doctors. Others go into the*armed services. Some get married early to wives who proletarizo their husbands by insisting .upon a nine to five life with Saturday and Sunday off. Tliere Ls more security in research and better hours and better pay. No midnight calls. No patients who come in crying and forget to pay when cured.

However, there Is no substitute for the general practitioner, or to use a tei*m they pie-fer, clinical medicine or a diagnostician or an internist. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a doctor at night or over the week-end, although lUnesR- is^ -not- *FFaged--4-either patient or doctor. It is tme that tho medical profo -sion Is trying to solve this problem, but I, for one, would not dare go to a strange doctor

Obscenity, like beauty, lies

^because he might quit honest (Continued on page five)

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?inancial Dynamite In Tax BiL

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THAT ULTLMATE SERENITY

It Is interesting to ponder the fact that we live in a universe

Can we be serene in such a world? I3 not the nature of the world such that we must necessarily be at all times in a state of agitation? Not at all.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The new tax bill Is loaded with financial dynamite. One of the biggest charges is a provision for complete disallowance repeat complete disallowance of anj? travel and entertainment expense not absolutely repeat absolutely substantiated by full and adequate records.

These new/rules are scheduled to go into effect July 1, this year. The Prentice-Hall tax service Is warning clients to, get into the custom of keeping complete records immediately. Unless salesmen and executives get into the swing of keeping full records, companies may forfeit thousands of dollars in

enough.

Tax services are warning clients not to confuse entertainment with gifts. Only $25 per

cepts lunch from a pensloi. ilan salesman, he can be fined $iu,-000 and locked up for ten years. His only consolation is that

customer per year is deducti- the salesman can be locked ud ble as a gift, but the entire with him.

amount of entertainmeht, if related to business, is deductible.

An executive who spends $60 for

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NEW PRODUCT NOTES AI>SO RECRUIT SALESMEN

"in-wfactr the-trtoms make We. are. not .corscIous ' of' fK

It up are continually in furious movement. The chair on which you happen to be sitting seems to be a solid piece of furniture. As a matter of fact, it is an innumerable cluster of atoms revolving on orbits at almost immeasurable speed.

V Furthermore, we are being hurled about the axis of the earth at eighteen miles a minute and around the orbit of the eactlL^At eighteen miles a second. Astronomers teis us that the* whole galaxy of whlch we are a part seems to be *"11 tremendous flighty Uoaa tiejp9 to somewhereF* < " ' / /

movement of the earth'about its axis or around its orbit. We have no consciousness of the terrific movement of atoms in the objects about us and, in fact, in our ow-n bodie.s. But we are led to believe that-in the realm where God abides there is peace and absolute serenity.

- It is not so mucfi one statement of the Bible but' the whole ^teaching of the Bible which seem-to indicate this. We can

a complete loss of deductions because of the Cohan case.

That was brought by the Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan, who fought an* Internal Revenue assessment levied becausfr he couJd not document expense deductions. The courts ruled that since he had obviously incurred some expense. he was entitled to some, deductions. ' ^

But the new bill, as it sfknds

Theres another hazard - in . the pending -tax>,bUl: the rules in customer entertaining deductions. Entertainment deductions must be directly related to the active conduct of trade or business.

In other words, the IRS can require a business to prove that any entertainment deduction has a direct relationship to bus-

deductible,

BEWARE WHERE YOU EAT!

Meanwhile, another bUl, signed into a law three webks' ago by President Kennedy, presents another hazard to businessmen. The 1962 Welfare and Disclosure Amendments makes it a crime for anyone concerned with the estabUshment or administration of a labor benefit plan

Iness. While it may not be ne- Jor a company to give or take

be i^rene because we live in a vrtoday, all tha^ and W4ps univei se ^ the center of- w hich Cohans name from tax law serenity presumably reigns.

cessary to prove an order r-

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. history. It provides that if there ^nd^eJUiS-.Cflminltte8-pototed

Peace, said Jesus, I kave ^are jao the mere hope that future

fith CO deductions.

conveniences. Buf they have still another use.

Preco Chemical Corp., West-bury. N. Y., has contributed -announcements of some 41 new products in recent years,** One result, according to Robert Nagel, president, is that the an- -nouncements attract salsmen ^ eager to handle their products. He said, Twenty-one per cent of our salesmen have approached us after reading about our product IDS'eWcL: umns.

income may result is nott-

any gift. loan, money, or thing of value with Intent to

influence 0? be influenced in umns. Salesmen who read

relattgrtorth-pto-^ oKHum-

It is so tough, Prentice-Hall ties are considered high in*

warns, that if an employer ac- alertness, he. ad(cL,